The relationship between the newly appointed president of the Western Ligurian Sea Port System Authority and Matteo Paroli and the employees of the body has gotten off to a stormy start.
Following a staff assembly, in fact, the provincial secretariats of Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have proclaimed a state of agitation for all personnel and a 24-hour strike on September 16th.
The grievance opens by stigmatizing as “extremely serious the failure to respect the National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL) for ports, specifically the decision not to apply Article 55”. This is the article concerning transfers: the casus belli would in fact be the transfer of an employee from the Genoa office to the Savona one, evidently not motivated, according to the unions, by the “proven technical, organizational, and productive reasons” required by the national contract.
An episode that would actually have to do with the search for alleged ‘moles’ within the body, if it is true that, as reported by Il Secolo Xix, the words spoken by the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Edoardo Rixi on the sidelines of a conference a few days ago in the presence of the heads of all the AdSPs were referred to the Genoa case: “Against non-transparent employees, a ‘tightening of the bolts’ is needed, zero tolerance is needed for conflicts of interest and private activities incompatible with public roles. It is necessary to guarantee equal treatment for operators and not pass documents from the public administration to one’s own reference political party.”
Without dwelling on what and why, in general, a public body that administers public affairs would have to hide (consistently, since it has never followed through on the commitment to make public the ministerial report on the facts that led in recent months to the plea bargain for corruption of the former president Paolo Signorini and the investigation of the still-serving Secretary General Paolo Piacenza, who is moreover the person in charge of relations with employees and the author, on the eve of the transfer, of a letter to remind them of their confidentiality duties), Rixi gave no clarifications on the specific case but also did not deny Il Secolo Xix’s connection to the Genoa case.
Be that as it may, the unions saw it as a political sanction disguised as an organizational measure, moreover unmotivated, “even more serious if one considers that the actor in question is the first Port Authority of the Country” which “has the task of overseeing, as a guarantor, compliance with the rules on port labor and existing agreements.”
Only the tip of an iceberg, however, constituted by the “lack of attention in trade union relations, which it was hoped would improve with the arrival of the new President.” The unions indeed denounce how workers “despite multiple reports continue to suffer workloads and excessive pressures that expose them to high levels of work-related stress. All this fits into a context of serious uncertainty concerning both internal issues such as the reorganization of the Body and the company-level supplementary bargaining agreement that expired in July, and broader issues, since the AdSP should impartially exercise the role of guarantor for the entire port community.”
A.M.
